Former head of state informed Sunday on France that he intended to “take the floor soon”, while affirming: “A former president may very well be candidate for the presidential election.”
Le Monde with AFP
Will he be a candidate? The former President of the Republic Francois Hollande, once again, maintained the doubt about a possible candidacy, Sunday, January 23, in a broadcast on France 3 devoted to a meeting with high school students.
“For now I’m not a candidate, you noticed,” said Hollande, in particular, to a high school student, before adding: “And as it does not go well [in the country and left It is true that we could say to each other: “Would anyone be useful?” I do not know, I do not think, by the way … I have the same ideas as Before, I continue to defend themselves, and a former president can very well redo from politics and, it happened, be a candidate for the presidential election, “he added. Asked about his possible application, he replied, “I’m going, anyway, speak soon.”
His remarks sound like a new disadvantage for the socialist candidate, Anne Hidalgo. Asked Monday morning on RTL on these statements of the former head of state, the Mayor of Paris pointed out: “First, François Hollande, whom I see regularly, has a lot of humor, and I believe was shown Many humor in front of these students of of , she tried. And continue: “I’m not here to comment on the small sentences, even those of François Hollande.”
“I’m not afraid”
Former President of the Republic, who had decided not to represent in 2012, however, had provided his support to Anne Hidalgo in November in Tulle, in the form of “Witness Passage”. “It’s not my mind to recall differences, Anne Hidalgo is the candidate of the PS and the social democratic ideas, who are also mine,” he said, stating “sufficiently suffering from the discordant voices during [ We fifty “, not to interfere with M me hidalgo during his campaign.
But these statements by Mr. Holland have a little more doubt about the socialist candidate’s campaign, who attempted to go on the offensive on Saturday at a meeting in Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis) .
“So let’s give up? (…) Are we going to leave our France sink into the throbbing of ever more violent liberalism with the middle classes and the popular categories, with youth, or sink into a national-populism Mortifer? “” Never! “She exclaimed, in front of a thousand activists. Without evoking the popular primary, to which she refuses to participate, she recalled having claimed an “honest debate, open, limpid” with his left-wing competitors, but “they refused it.” “The page is turned, I will defend our project, the French will decide,” she added, before: “I’m not afraid.”
On RTL Monday morning, M me Hidalgo felt that “this campaign did not start truly”. From now on, “the real starting line is when everyone has aligned his sponsorships,” she added. Everything hoping not to see François Hollande can add on this starting line.